CHURCH PLEA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 171, 21 July 1943, Page 3

CHURCH PLEA

FEDERAL ELECTION!

Appeal To Australians To Di' Anger And Bitterness

■ N.Z. Press Association—Copyright: 1 Rec. noon. SYDNEY, thisiffljj The Primate of the Church of Ejjf land in Australia, Dr. Le Fanu, Ar ■ bishop of Perth, has appealed . ; politicians and the Press to fight \ i Federal elections without bitternei I The Primate's appeal was also sigd by the Archbishop of Svdney, II Mowll, the Archbishop of Melbotif i. Dr. Byoth, and the Archbishop I Brisbane, Dr. Wand. This is sta-i to be 'the first time that the Ar : t bishops of the Church of England'! Australia have made an elect:statement. « ' '•■ il

Archbishop Le Fanu,

Their appeal warns Australia ffh that the election is likelv to extremely bitter, and appeals \M\i them to weigh the election issum] carefully before voting. "Anger and sobrietv of judgmcJfjl do not walk together," declares 1 ySM statement. "To lose one's temper;®] the best way to make sound ment impossible. Yet we find m l|j who have been chosen as our rep;;||j! sentatives making vehement ar.CySj ment over quite unessential del a.;ft j; at a critical moment when the txK:j mon sense of voters i.s of vii;||l importance. ifHtl "There are great issues. thercfojfHjj before Australia at the preacßjljj moment and for years to come, good temper is essential to soujlfjj] judgment." AUGUSTA'S KEF UGEES|||| am! 12.30 p.m. LONDON, July jjj !: More than 20,000 inhabitants wiM deserted Augusta hurriedly befd.|JLj: the British arrived are now for food. They will be perrnmed- ; : return to the? town ns so<o? "fElfli water system ha, been repa,^.